Quick recipe for salmoriglio sauce to season meat and fish, especially used for grilled meat or fish in Calabria, but I assure you it goes well with all cooking methods, even boiled, or for seasoning raw meat, fish, or even grilled or roasted vegetables. Salmoriglio is a sauce widely used both in Calabria and Sicily, it is made with olive oil and lemon juice, flavored with garlic, parsley, oregano, and pepper, or chili pepper. Often in Calabria, a simpler version is prepared with oil, lemon juice, garlic, and oregano, and optionally chili pepper, without parsley, more suitable for seasoning meat, while if oregano and parsley are used together, it is suitable for meat, fish, or vegetables, such as grilled zucchini and eggplant, also great with the alternative of vinegar instead of lemon, for the classic scapece vegetables, where parsley is replaced with fresh mint.
Here are some examples to use it, with fish but also with grilled or boiled meat and even with vegetables.
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Cooking methods: No Cooking
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients for Salmoriglio Sauce
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 1 clove of garlic
- to taste freshly ground black pepper
- 1 chili pepper
- to taste olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon (or ripe lime)
- to taste dried oregano
- to taste salt
Tools to Prepare Salmoriglio Sauce
- 1 Cutting Board
- 1 Knife
- 1 Small Bowl
- 1 Lemon Squeezer
- 1 Garlic Press
Steps to Prepare Salmoriglio Sauce
1. Only take the parsley leaves, wash them, pat them dry, chop finely on a cutting board, and place in a bowl.
2. Clean a clove of garlic, crush it finely with the garlic press and add it to the parsley.
3. Add freshly ground black pepper. Optionally, also add finely chopped chili pepper, and also add salt, enough to season the dishes we have to prepare.
4. Dress with olive oil.
5. Prepare the juice of a lemon, or ripe lime from my garden, and add it to the bowl.
6. Also add a bit of water and finely crumbled dried oregano.
7. Mix well and use the salmoriglio sauce for all the uses we want. Excellent in cooking on meat, but also raw on grilled or boiled meat, the same for fish, grilled, pan-cooked, or boiled, or steamed, and for grilled vegetables or maybe boiled potatoes.
